The Design and Implementation of laffer1

http://www.hostingforum.ca/921559-subversion-ldap-config-apache-2-vs-apache-2-2-a.html

WHy do they have to change things... ugh.

http://www.royhooper.ca/blog/articles/2007/07/07/installing-the-darwin-calendar-server-on-freebsd

I'm amazed by this. Most of the dependancies are already in FreeBSD ports. It's not going to be feasable on MidnightBSD until zope works.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/hd-dvds-fall-like-dominoes/?ref=technology

How can you take someone seriously who mentions a 20 year old 13 inch tv?  I wanted to read a piece by someone who is not a techie.  I am very curious what the public thinks about the format for the few who know about it.  The author of the article did do some research.  Download services were mentioned which many computer geeks have echoed.  We don't have the bandwidth for it yet. 

I think we'll get at least one more disc format before the "end" of the media.  We still need it for backups at this point.  A flash drive is a terrible backup device. 

The author wrote a fairly good story, but clearly the ancient TV should not have been mentioned.  It makes this person lose credibility.  I still watch VHS movies in my home.  I understand that people won't switch overnight. 

My mother bought me two Wii games for Christmas.  The first game is Red Steel.  I've been wanting that game for some time.  I played it for 30 minutes in the first pass.  The movements are very precise with the wii mote and numbchuck.  It's an interesting game, but very difficult.  Also, the first level is gun based and I thought I'd be hacking people apart with a sword right away. 

The Looney Toons game hurt my wrists.  It requires repetative motion to "kill" things.  Bugs is ok to control aside from the attack moves.  I became bored fairly quickly with that game, but I haven't tried the two player "brawl" mode.  I suspect that might be fun.

Classes begin tomorrow. I'm a bit nervous as I tend to be every semester. Upon completion of this semester, I will be 2 classes away from my degree. I'm quite happy about that. It's a long time coming. I miss working. I will have more time for OSS projects once I'm out of school overall.

I blogged about my fedex experience in the mbsd journal earlier. I managed to get the video card installed (they found it) and upgrade part of xorg, php, and perl modules. The updates on the server are about done. I think I even got the websites working :)

I just realized how behind we are and it's scary. At least the server isn't causing me to go deaf anymore. That bad fan on the video card was driving me nuts.

http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support-for-netscape-web-browsers/

I guess the book of Mozilla was wrong :)

Seriously, the browser practically died when Mozilla was founded. This is still a shame as I remember getting my first copy of Netscape years ago.  I remember running 2.0 beta and using a 1.x release on another system. 

I still have a "Mozilla" mug with a Netscape logo on it. 

I got an A- in Technical Writing. I'm very happy with that grade. I've registered for four classes. I'm still toying with taking that other class Steve mentioned. I could fit it in, but I can't register for it without some hoops which I can't do until EMU is open again. I'll think about that some more.

Christmas Eve was something else. We went to my mom's this year at 1PM. Things went well for awhile. Caryn got ill and started turning green. She wasn't feeling well most of the night. I ended up using Dance, Dance Revolution with my mother which I bought her for Christmas for her new PS2. (she bought that herself) I did not see my father at all this year. That's a long story in itself. I may share another time. We went to my aunts next. Caryn got sick to her stomach and so we left after about two hours. I wasn't feeling smashing myself. We started home on US23 and found ourselves in a terrible traffic jam. Traffic was completely stopped for 20 minutes. A series of cars slid off the road. I got off at the first Ann Arbor exit I could once we got past the 14 and 23 section where the accident took place. I don't know that part of town well and got lost for awhile. All the time caryn was puking in a bag. That had to be the most unpleasant drive I've had ini some time. However, it was still an OK christmas because my father wasn't around to bring everyone down. It's hard to explain.

I went shopping yesterday. I found some new clothes at JC Penny. I also got a copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on DVD. Caryn's been using the Kindle a lot. I don't know when we'll be watching HP.

I bought some new hard drives for stargazer today. It's now got two IDE Seagate drives acting in RAID1 for /home. It seems much faster now. I did some tweaks on the OS too. Very nice.

I'm waiting for one grade, (hurry up Steve :) but I got the others.

I got a B in Computer Networks which was a little hardware, but mostly about how things work and coding network apps in C or Java. I was retaking the class from the spring semester. I got an E the first time and now a B. I'm quite happy!

I didn't pass my stats class. That sucks. I got a C+ in writing for the professional world. That means I have two classes left in my writing minor.

So, I have the following classes left to take:
2 writing classes. (winter term)
3 computer science classes (2 winter term)
1 math class

Now to see what happens with my other english class.

I've been enjoying Guitar Hero III for the Wii. I figured I wouldn't like it much or suck at it. Quite the contrary. it's a great game. I'm at level 2 so far. Caryn likes it too. I'd recommend Wii fans get it as well as Dance, Dance Revolution.

The new Knight Rider car "specs" have been published.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/4237588.html

It's an interesting read for KITT fans. I wish they still made Trans Ams.

From Cyrus Shafai:

I have fixed the Leopard permissions problem for my iMac !! It is caused by the ACL permissions issue that a few people have mentioned, and it is an easy fix. It is not a solution, as the problem is caused by Leopard, but it appears easy to fix when it happens.
1. What creates the problem?
You can see it in action by creating a new user account (admin access), and create some dummy files in it. Try to change the names of these files, and no problem you can do so easily. Now go to up one directory level to your user folder, open a Get Info window on the new account you just made. You will see several users in the permission section, most likely "user", "staff", and "everyone".

Now use Get Info to apply a permission change to this new user account. For example, change the permission for "everyone" to Read Only. Then select "apply to enclosed items". Now go back to your home directory and try to change the file name of items in that account, and you will find you can't. Do a Get info on one of the files and in the permission section it says "You have custom access", instead of "You have read and write access".

You can also easily create the problem from the Terminal window, instead of the Get Info window. For example, go to your users folder using the Terminal application, and type the following in the terminal window.

chmod -R =rw,+X username

This will force Leopard to set the read and write permissions to the usual default to your user folder and to all files/folders recursively (this is what the -R is for) in your user folder (the +X will retain any execute permissions that are currently set). After doing this you will again create the problem.
2. What causes the problem?
Run the Terminal application (you should be in your home directory) and type:

ls -le

This will list all your files and folders in your home directory, along with the ACL extensions to the file permissions. On my machine I get under each "permission affected" files or folders the following additional information.

0: group:everyone deny delete

So this "everyone" person is not allowed to delete any files (or rename them). And this "everyone" person is a "group" that includes EVERYONE including the user as well. Thus, since "everyone" can't change files, neither can the user. This part is confusing at first to realize what is going on since in Unix terminology normally "everyone" only refers to the outside world, and not the user himself. I believe Apple tried to use the ACL extension to prevent certain files/folder that Leopard would not want the user to rename/delete (i.e. Pictures directory), but for some reason Leopard is applying this to all files, folder, and contents of folders.
3. The solution the solution is simple. Remove this ACL condition for all files or folders in your home directory.

3a. You typically can easily do this from the user folder level in Terminal, since the affected account also has the same ACL condition applied to it. Type ls -le to see if this condition is present for the affected user folder account itself. If it is, then all you have to do is type is:

chmod -R -a# 0 username

This will remove the ACL condition (numbered 0) from the user account folder, and all files or folders in it (the -R condition causes this recursive fix of all contents of all folders).

3b. You may not be able to do this from the user folder level in Terminal if the user folder itself does not have this ACL condition. In this case, simply go to your home directory in Terminal, and fix to each file or folder within your home directory individually, and do this recursively to all contents of folders so you don't have to do it for the contents of the folders in your home directory. Type ls -le, and find which files/folders are affected, and for each affected file/folder type the following to remove their ACL condition:

chmod -R -a# 0 file_or_folder_name

After doing this, if you type " ls -le " in Terminal window you will see that the ACL condition is gone from every fixed file or folder. Also, if you do a Get Info in Finder on any fixed file/folder you will see in the permission section the phrase "You can read and write".
Should the permission problem be fixed this way by canceling the ACL conditions, I am not sure. But it is now fixed on my machine (not solved, but fixed) and I again have full access to all my files.

Isn't blogging grand? I'm testing the Drivel client in MidnightBSD. This is using the new Blogger API on JJ.

Here's another go at it. 

 

Can we edit things nicely?  I think so.

I'm trying out Ecto.  It's a windows (or mac) blogging client.  Somewhat nice actually.

xcode crashed today. I lost some of my homework. I hate leopard.

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mhe/foundations2/node113.html

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?p=429317

Apple changed the behavior of ACL handling. Login on leopard and watch the permission go to hell on your 10.4 server (10.4.11 actually)

I hate them.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/12/07/suicide.shunning.ap/index.html

Perhaps if she hadn't have led to the death of a teenager, it wouldn't be happening? I don't feel sorry for this woman. She acted immature and now the community is responding in kind. She should appreciate the attitude. Messing with peoples lives is OK to her if it's not happening to her.